NMLP P-008878 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-04

The Wide Net and Other Stories

Eudora Welty · Harcourt, Brace and Company · 1943

The first-issue dust jacket was designed by E. McKnight Kauffer and carries its printed price on the front flap; the pink portion of the spine lettering is notoriously fugitive and has usually faded toward invisibility, so surviving pink spine color is a good sign of an early, well-preserved jacket

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-008878 for "The Wide Net and Other Stories" by Eudora Welty (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-008878, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).